Category: "Staff"

With our Early Decision II and Regular Decision deadlines coming up on January 5, we are hosting online office hours to help with your questions regarding Harvey Mudd and the college admission process. Office hours are Q&As with our admission staff and do not include a formal presentation. Come and go as you please. Prepare […]

Applying to college is a lot of work. At times you may completely forget to ask a question or question what you remember. Below are some FAQs and a few words of advice. If you have a question, the answer is probably below. Please keep in mind that our office will close for winter break at […]

Last night the Common Application went live! How many of you have received advice from teachers, counselors, parents, or friends telling you to start your application early? You might even have drafts of your Common Application personal statement saved somewhere on your computer… It’s definitely nice to do some of the work before senior year […]

Today is the day. At 6:00pm PDT, we will be releasing our decisions. Technically we have been recruiting the Harvey Mudd College Class of 2022 for years, ever since some of you checked that magical box on your PSAT’s saying that you were willing to receive mail from colleges. And today is the day we have […]

Our senior interns are some of Mudd’s most awesome people. If you come to campus to interview, you’ll likely meet them. During the interview, we aim to get to know you but below is a little snippet about our senior interns. Some Muddspeak Senior Thesis = capstone project involving high level original independent research Clinic […]

Now that our ED I application deadline has passed, it’s quite often that we get the question…”what exactly happens to my application after I hit that submit button on Common App?” Well, believe it or not, there’s quite a bit that goes on behind the scenes before your application even gets into the hands of […]

Early Decision (ED) vs Regular Decision (RD) Some of you may be thinking about early decision (ED). I decided to jot down a few points and questions that may help you with this decision. I hope this helps not just in determining ED at HMC but other colleges as well and of course we’d love […]

Our Director of Admission just got back from his little jaunt to China. After giving about a gazillion successive presentations about Mudd, he found himself getting a tad bored (bored with the content of his presentations, at any rate — he could have done with a little more boredom on the traffic/car accident front). So […]